Re: What rotted these potatoes?

"Rodney Blackall" <rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4e776f17c4rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk...
> This probably not the best place to post this, but I don't want to
> subscribe
> to another group for a single question.
>
> Last week we bought some red potatoes from Tesco and have had a long
> weekend
> break from eating them. This evening three of the remainder were found to
> have large soft patches and to be oozing an evil smelling, thin brown
> liquid. One of these had only a small bad patch so I thought to cut it
> away,
> the cut revealed a cluster of brown spots rather like lettering in a stick
> of rock. The spots ran the whole way through the quite large potato so it
> was discarded.
>
> I have never seen the like in 70 years; can anyone tell me what would
> cause
> this (NOT global warming please!)
>
> --
> Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
> Buckingham, ENGLAND
> Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j

Try:

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/prm8938?opendocument

Regards
Chris
--
Craven and Pendle Birds:
Bird watching in and around Craven & Pendle.
North Yorkshire and East Lancashire.
http://craven-and-pendle-birding.org/

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C R Fishwick	Re: What rotted these potatoes? "Rodney Blackall" <rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:4e776f17c4rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk... > This probably not the best place to post this, but I don't want to > subscribe > to another group for a single question. > > Last week we bought some red potatoes from Tesco and have had a long > weekend > break from eating them. This evening three of the remainder were found to > have large soft patches and to be oozing an evil smelling, thin brown > liquid. One of these had only a small bad patch so I thought to cut it > away, > the cut revealed a cluster of brown spots rather like lettering in a stick > of rock. The spots ran the whole way through the quite large potato so it > was discarded. > > I have never seen the like in 70 years; can anyone tell me what would > cause > this (NOT global warming please!) > > -- > Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI) > Buckingham, ENGLAND > Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j Try: http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/prm8938?opendocument Regards Chris -- Craven and Pendle Birds: Bird watching in and around Craven & Pendle. North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. http://craven-and-pendle-birding.org/